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Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
Weiner, Marli F.. Ed(S): Hough, Mayzie
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Description for Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
Hardback. Shows how white Southern doctors used science to defend slavery Editor(s): Hough, Mayzie. Num Pages: 328 pages, 47 b&w photographs, 5 maps, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Marli F. Wiener skillfully integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period. Challenged with both helping to preserve the slave system (by acknowledging and preserving clear distinctions of race and sex) and enhancing their own authority (with correct medical diagnoses and effective treatment), doctors sought to understand bodies that did not necessarily fit into neat dichotomies ... Read more
Marli F. Wiener skillfully integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period. Challenged with both helping to preserve the slave system (by acknowledging and preserving clear distinctions of race and sex) and enhancing their own authority (with correct medical diagnoses and effective treatment), doctors sought to understand bodies that did not necessarily fit into neat dichotomies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252036996
SKU
V9780252036996
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99-15
About Weiner, Marli F.. Ed(S): Hough, Mayzie
Marli F. Weiner (1953-2009) was Adelaide and Alan Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine and the author of several books, including Place and Gender: Women in Maine History and Plantation Women: South Carolina Mistresses and Slaves, 1830-1880.Mazie Hough is an assistant professor of history and women's studies and the associate director of the Women in the Curriculum ... Read more
Reviews for Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
"A powerful case for the importance of medical men and ideas in undergirding slavery and white supremacy."
Southern Spaces "Weiner provides an ambitious and well-researched study of the relationship between the antebellum social order and medical discourse on race, gender, and illness in the South."
The Journal of Southern History "With a thorough analysis of a breadth of evidence, the authors ... Read more
Southern Spaces "Weiner provides an ambitious and well-researched study of the relationship between the antebellum social order and medical discourse on race, gender, and illness in the South."
The Journal of Southern History "With a thorough analysis of a breadth of evidence, the authors ... Read more